Thread mass2 millionths kg
4,000Paramecia
8 hundredthsRice grain weights
1.3 billionthsSedans
About 2 mg per dried stigma
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Single Saffron Thread
Worth more per gram than gold/Food & Drinks
A single thread of saffron, the dried stigma of the Crocus sativus flower, weighs about 2 milligrams and is roughly 3 cm long. It takes about 150,000 flowers to produce one kilogram of saffron, which is why it retails for $5,000-$10,000 per kg. Each crocus produces only three stigmas, and they must all be harvested by hand.
Measurements
Thread length3 hundredths m
4.5 billionthsNile Rivers
100Grains of salt
Roughly 25-30 mm
Thread width1 thousandths m
1.7 thousandthsTumbleweed diameters
463 millionthsShaquille O'Neals
2Tardigrade body lengths
About 1 mm across
Caloric energy per thread6.5 hundredths J
3.3 quintillionInfrared photons
241 trillionthsTesla batteries
Essentially zero nutritional value per strand